Westy Community Care Home

On top of performing well in its overall score, this facility earned even higher grades in the area of long-term care. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an impressive grade of A. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.18699 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Few facilities with an overall grade in this range performed as well in multiple categories. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid score in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is generally a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home received a respectable nursing score of B-. The nursing grade is based on numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.